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Tom Lehrer

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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.


— Tom Lehrer


#feel #i #i feel #least #person

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!


— Tom Lehrer


#fellow man #hate #i #know #like

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.


— Tom Lehrer


#get #how #life #like #out

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.


— Tom Lehrer


#performer #really #temperament

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.


— Tom Lehrer


#bypass #i #maturity #senility #trying

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.


— Tom Lehrer


#communicate #feels #least #person #shut

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'


— Tom Lehrer


#girl #now #say #were #words

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.


— Tom Lehrer


#hard #irreverence #wit

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.


— Tom Lehrer


#already #been #consider #dead #had

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.


— Tom Lehrer


#involuntary #laugh #laughter #you






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Mathematical publications
The American Mathematical Society database lists Lehrer as co-author of two papers:
RE Fagen & TA Lehrer "Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter" Journal of the Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics vol. The album liner notes (and Lehrer himself in one routine) promote Tom Lehrer's songs using reverse psychology by deliberately quoting his negative reviews. The June 8 show was his only performance to date before Queen Elizabeth II.

S. Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9 1928) is an American singer-songwriter satirist pianist and mathematician. In the early 1970s he retired from public performances to devote his time to teaching mathematics and music theatre at the University of California Santa Cruz.

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